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As a User Researcher Intern at Autodesk you will shape the user experience for billions of design professionals worldwide. Join a talented team of User Researchers and partner with interaction designers, prototypers and product managers to deliver designs of exceptional quality and usability. Help develop and pilot usability tests; set up test environments in our usability lab; act as observer and note taker during test sessions; and facilitate actual test sessions with users. Responsibilities include working with designers to conduct usability tests and customer field studies that generate user interface requirements. An understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methods is required. Desired Skills and Experience include: Knowledge in at least one or more user research methodology, including: designing and conducting usability studies, ethnographic research, statistical analysis, heuristic evaluations, and focus groups. Prototyping using Adobe® Illustrator®, Photoshop®, HTML, Flash®, Director, Fireworks, Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is desirable.
Blue State Digital is looking for a creative, talented, and analytically-minded user experience (UX) design intern to help on a number of BSD Tools-related projects this spring in our Boston office. The design intern would work directly with the product design director and the product team on product information architecture, product enhancements, and user research.
We are looking for recent graduates or students in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Digital Media Design, Product Design, HCI, Computer Science, or closely related fields are encouraged to apply. The interns will work closely with senior staff in designing user interfaces for future interactive visualization products/systems, supporting funded research projects, and/or creating product specifications and user experience documentation. Ideal Candidate: BA/MA/MFA students or recent graduates in Interaction Design, Industrial Design or Digital Media Design, with excellent visual design, interaction design, product design skills and experiences in designing interactive demos and user interfaces for complex systems and products. She/he should be proficient design applications like Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop as well as in specification or product documentation and presentation design using the Office suite. Experience in rapid prototyping in Flash or Java is a plus.
Brief description of what will be expected during internship:
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Securitys Science and Technology Directorate, is leading an R&D effort intended to create the next generation of technologies and tools related to information analysis, communication and information sharing, collaboration, and visualization of information to support decision making and operations within the emergency operations domain. To develop the requirements for these environments, PNNL adopted a user centered design philosophy where the user is involved in all aspects of the research from requirements definition, scenario and use case development, envisioning and feature development. As an intern on this project you will be working closely with senior designers, research scientists, developers and emergency response professionals to help design Novel User Interface prototypes across form factors like mobile, tablet, desktop workstations and interactive tables and walls. These prototypes will drive adaptive data triage and decision support that allows for role and activity based situation awareness through a dynamic, trainable filtering system. The interns responsibilities will include user research, driving user requirements, writing scenarios and use cases, establishing workflows, designing user experiences, production and usability testing.
Please pass following information on any interested computer science and graphic arts interns. Unfortunately, the STIPDG program is only for US citizens but it is open to all qualified candidates without regard to their race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal law. The application deadline is 12/31. The internship period is 6/4/2012 through 8/10/2012. STIPDG Intern Program: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/stipdg.htm
However, the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) is open to all students, regardless of citizenship . The 2012 application round has not opened but I’ll send you a reminder when it does.
Biomedical Inforamatics Research Center and the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
One opening is an HCI internship in general health IT within the Interactive Clinical Design Institute (ICDI) within the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. The Interactive Clinical Design Institute (ICDI) is part of the Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC) at the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. The ICDI addresses the challenge of developing healthcare technology that is truly intuitive to use, minimizes medical errors and improves care. The HCI summer internship is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students with background in the following areas: human computer interaction, computer science, health informatics, cognitive science, human factors, psychology, graphics design or industrial systems and engineering. Areas of focus could include: - Analysis and predictive performance modeling of the electronic health record using a cognitive and behavioral analysis tool (e.g., CogTool). - Visualization and presentation of healthcare information that allows physicians to safely and accurately understand patient history, including explorations and prototyping of novel ways to represent patient information including, the medical condition and patient history. There is particular interest in using and exploring ecological interface design within these displays and testing/validating prototype designs. - Creation of UI prototypes specifically designed for presentation on highly mobile devices to aide in our understanding of what kinds of electronic health record information could be reasonably presented on iPADs or iPhones as compared to touch tablet PCs. - Usability testing, evaluation and baseline measures of the current electronic medical record and opportunities to conduct detailed analysis through field observations and/or usability lab studies with special emphasis and interest in eye-tracking analysis of an electronic health record and comparisons of redesigned records.
Biomedical Inforamtics Research Center and the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
The other two internships are within our Dental Informatics Program - Dental informatics, a discipline concerned with the application of computer technology in dentistry, is a rapidly emerging field in which training opportunities are limited. Under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Amit Acharya, the Biomedical Informatics Research Center is offering two dental informatics internship positions to provide opportunities for education and research in this discipline. Individuals who are engaged in the following areas are strongly encouraged to apply for this program: dentists, dental and pre-dental students, dental educators, dental hygienists, dental technicians, physicians, medical students, computer scientists, computer science undergraduate and graduate students, informaticians and informatics students. Successful applicants will be assigned a primary mentor and will work on one or more projects under the discipline. Areas of focus could include: - Medical providers’ dental data needs. - Dental workflow analysis. - Dental information model and ontologies. - Integration of medical and dental electronic health records. - Clinical decision support systems in dentistry. - Visualization and presentation of dental information including novel ways to interact with 2D and 3D tooth charts. - Evaluation of and usability testing of new methods to interact with an electronic dental record including, use of eye tracking, brain signals (EEG) or other novel ways to allow hands free interaction with the dental record (e.g., gestures) in context of a dental examination. - Usability testing, evaluation and baseline measures of the current electronic dental record and opportunities to conduct detailed eye-tracking analysis.
PHH Arval Since 1946, PHH Arval has been providing world-class financial and management services for commercial vehicle fleets. We’ve made our name through a unique combination of fleet management capabilities – data and technology blended with the experience and commitment of our people. We call it the art and science of fleet management.
Whether you are a fresh graduate or you have already taken the first few steps of your career journey, you should consider joining our expanding and exciting organization. We are currently looking for a passionate user experience design intern with a distinguished academic record to join us.
We are currently seeking a talented and driven user experience designer to assist in creating use scenarios and screen-mock-ups for a large project related to rebuilding our primary client web portal. This project is highly visible within the organization and the department has regular interaction with our clients. We will also be designing applications for a variety of mediums (mobile devices, tablets, desktop apps, etc). So as you can see, this is a great opportunity for any student looking to get into the user experience field.
Responsibilities:
•Continuously learn about needs, listening initiatives, and data communication challenges from customers and prospects
•Discover gaps in our product's usability and workflow
•Design the ideal user experience based on functional requirements and our persona’s needs
•Develop detailed use scenarios, early wireframes and high fidelity mockups
•Conduct usability tests with our customers
•Create and iterate through mockups and prototypes based on feedback
•Create and inspire adherence to user interface standards across the product
•Ability to take designs from wireframe to product
•Help the engineering team build high quality, cross-device interfaces
•Be the artist for our user interface!
The User Systems & Experience Research (USER) group at IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, California is accepting applications for interns for the summer of 2012. The USER group focuses on understanding and improving how people interact with technology. We analyze existing practices, build new interactive technologies, and study their impact on real users, often in the field. Our cross-disciplinary team is comprised of human computer interaction researchers and software engineers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology, social science, design, and user experience.
Our current research focuses include improving collaboration within the enterprise, enhancing browser-based user experiences, interaction with multiple computing devices, user experiences for mobile devices, and user-centered visual analytics. We seek interns with backgrounds in computer science, cognitive science, sociology, and design. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program.
To apply for an internship, send an email to csjobs_user at almaden.ibm.com:
(1) With a subject-line "USER summer intern 2012 application"
(2) Attaching your CV, and
(3) Including the following information in the body text of the email:
(a) A few keywords describing your current research and research area (e.g., CSCW, info viz, end-user-programming, experimental psychology).
(b) A few keywords describing your HCI research skills (e.g., strong programmer, quantitative data analysis, experimental design, visual design).
(c) The name and email address of your Ph.D. advisor.
Applications sent to csjobs_user at almaden.ibm.com will be considered for all USER research projects. If you know which project you are interested in, you are encouraged to send an email with the above information to the contact person for that individual project (listed below) -- your application will still be considered for all USER projects. Please do not send your application directly to multiple project teams.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
USER Research Areas Recruiting Interns
Social & Collaboration Research We are exploring the use of social and collaboration software within and among businesses and their customers, including tools for communities, teams, social networks, and collective intelligence groups.
* Understanding social and workplace collaboration: Conducting studies to understand fundamental issues about how people collaborate in companies and how social and collaboration software can help. * User, team, and community modeling: Designing and developing empirical and computational models to characterize individual and group behavior and traits from collaboration tool usage data (e.g., emails, teamspaces, microblogs). We are leveraging these models to improve the user experience and value of these tools. * Engaging social networks to collect hidden information, verify questionable information, or take action. This includes building smart dashboards and automated algorithms to facilitate engagement, and conducting user studies to explore the applications that may be enabled through engagement.
Team: Hernan Badenes, Hongxia Jin, Tara Matthews, Tom Moran, Jeff Nichols, Barton Smith, Wei Zhang, Tom Zimmerman Contact: Tara Matthews (tlmatthe at us.ibm.com)
Smarter Web: Conversational interfaces for the web We are looking for summer internship applicants interested in conversational interaction with intelligent assistants. Our CoScripter system (coscripter.researchlabs.ibm.com) enables end users to automate web-based activities, such as checking in for a flight, paying a monthly credit card bill, or finding a local store's business hours. We are extending this system to enable conversations with a mobile user to handle variations in a scripted activity, such as number of checked bags, unexpected credit card charges, or changes in a business' web page. Applicants should have an interest in web-based declarative task modeling and dialog management, or contextual language understanding and generation, with experience in web development.
Team: Julian Cerruti, Allen Cypher, Clemens Drews, Tessa Lau, Jalal Mahmud, Jeff Nichols Contact: Tessa Lau (tessalau at us.ibm.com)
Mobile User Experience Research The current set of user experiences and user interfaces for mobile devices just scratch the surface. We're interested in exploring new techniques to allow users to interact with smart phones and tablets (particularly new techniques for rich interactions with visualized information) and new use cases and user experiences for mobile devices (particularly how mobile user experiences can effectively integrate with desktop user experiences, either serially or in parallel). We are looking for internship candidates who are interested in pushing the boundaries of interaction for mobile devices to create compelling next-generation experiences. Experience with mobile development, mobile evaluation, or interactive visualization is preferred.
Team: Chris Kau, Jeff Pierce, Christine Robson, Jerre Schoudt Contact: Jeff Pierce (jspierce at us.ibm.com)
User-Centered Visual Analytics This line of work involves researching and developing visual analytic paradigms, tools, and methodologies to support task and goal-driven decision making. We are addressing several research issues:
* Design and develop interactive visual metaphors and tools to transform text collections into a visual representation that helps reveal thematic patterns and locate interesting information. * Devise interactive analytics algorithms and approaches to support guided interactive discovery, visualization, and collaboration on data leveraging data semantics, meta-data, and analytic tasks. * Model, represent, and translate a person's high-level analytic intent to the underlying, operational, analytic steps.
Overall, we aim to support users in their decision making in domains such as retail and healthcare. We aim to do so by a) designing novel visual metaphors and interaction techniques to convey complex text analytic results and make them consumable by average users; b) seamlessly integrating interactive visualization with analytics techniques to drive and guide visual analysis, tailoring the analysis process to a person’s tasks; and c) leveraging data semantics in the representation of and interaction with data, guiding and summarizing visualizations by automatically detecting and explaining interesting observations in plain language.
Team: Eben Haber, Eser Kandogan, Huahai Yang Contact: Eser Kandogan (eser at us.ibm.com)
Internship at the Environmental Protection Agency- non-paid internship
Project Manager, Office of Environmental Information at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Goal: To work with the Intranet Redesign team to make the web materials more inviting and usable. Technical skills useful but not necessary.
Internship at the U.S. National Park Service- non-paid internship
New Media Technology Specialist at National Park Service
Goal: To support social media use among the National Park Service personnel and to highlight the National Park Service in social media among the general public. No programming experience is necessary.
Internship for start-up company/Venture Capital project
Former Director of Learning at LeapFrog Inc., now entrepreneur in a startup company developing new technologies to support pre-school learning. Programming experience, particularly in creating app development is preferred.
We're a team of nearly 50 passionate, talented, dedicated folks who love working together and with our clients to plan, design, build, and market web sites and digital products we're all proud of.
If you have the right blend of talents and interests, you'll participate in developing various UX deliverables, including concept models, content inventories, site maps, wireframes, and user flow diagrams. You'll join client meetings to experience client presentations and design consultations.
Learning Assistance Service University Counseling Center
We are interested in having an intern from the HCI Masters program work on the following tasks for the Learning Assistance Service:
(1) Develop learning skills animations (scripted by LAS)
(2) Interactive quizzes (various learning skills topics) that capture and analyze student responses
(3) Website improvements (within current Counseling Center existing parameters)
(4) Develop online survey/checklist to be sent to students prior to LAS visit
Desired Skills and Experience include: Knowledge in at least one or more user research methodology, including: designing and conducting usability studies, ethnographic research, statistical analysis, heuristic evaluations, and focus groups. Prototyping using Adobe® Illustrator®, Photoshop®, HTML, Flash®, Director, Fireworks, Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is desirable.
Brief description of what will be expected during internship:
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Securitys Science and Technology Directorate, is leading an R&D effort intended to create the next generation of technologies and tools related to information analysis, communication and information sharing, collaboration, and visualization of information to support decision making and operations within the emergency operations domain.
To develop the requirements for these environments, PNNL adopted a user centered design philosophy where the user is involved in all aspects of the research from requirements definition, scenario and use case development, envisioning and feature development. As an intern on this project you will be working closely with senior designers, research scientists, developers and emergency response professionals to help design Novel User Interface prototypes across form factors like mobile, tablet, desktop workstations and interactive tables and walls. These prototypes will drive adaptive data triage and decision support that allows for role and activity based situation awareness through a dynamic, trainable filtering system. The interns responsibilities will include user research, driving user requirements, writing scenarios and use cases, establishing workflows, designing user experiences, production and usability testing.
STIPDG Intern Program: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/stipdg.htm
However, the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) is open to all students, regardless of citizenship . The 2012 application round has not opened but I’ll send you a reminder when it does.
Michael D. Nesbitt
Federal Highway Administration
Program Performance Analyst
(202)366-1179
michael.nesbitt@dot.gov
Areas of focus could include:
- Analysis and predictive performance modeling of the electronic health record using a cognitive and behavioral analysis tool (e.g., CogTool).
- Visualization and presentation of healthcare information that allows physicians to safely and accurately understand patient history, including explorations and prototyping of novel ways to represent patient information including, the medical condition and patient history. There is particular interest in using and exploring ecological interface design within these displays and testing/validating prototype designs.
- Creation of UI prototypes specifically designed for presentation on highly mobile devices to aide in our understanding of what kinds of electronic health record information could be reasonably presented on iPADs or iPhones as compared to touch tablet PCs.
- Usability testing, evaluation and baseline measures of the current electronic medical record and opportunities to conduct detailed analysis through field observations and/or usability lab studies with special emphasis and interest in eye-tracking analysis of an electronic health record and comparisons of redesigned records.
Application Process (deadline is January 15th): http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/visitors/pages/default.aspx?page=edu_opp_application_process
Areas of focus could include:
- Medical providers’ dental data needs.
- Dental workflow analysis.
- Dental information model and ontologies.
- Integration of medical and dental electronic health records.
- Clinical decision support systems in dentistry.
- Visualization and presentation of dental information including novel ways to interact with 2D and 3D tooth charts.
- Evaluation of and usability testing of new methods to interact with an electronic dental record including, use of eye tracking, brain signals (EEG) or other novel ways to allow hands free interaction with the dental record (e.g., gestures) in context of a dental examination.
- Usability testing, evaluation and baseline measures of the current electronic dental record and opportunities to conduct detailed eye-tracking analysis.
Application Process (deadline is January 15th): http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/visitors/pages/default.aspx?page=edu_opp_application_process
Since 1946, PHH Arval has been providing world-class financial and management services for commercial vehicle fleets. We’ve made our name through a unique combination of fleet management capabilities – data and technology blended with the experience and commitment of our people. We call it the art and science of fleet management.
Whether you are a fresh graduate or you have already taken the first few steps of your career journey, you should consider joining our expanding and exciting organization. We are currently looking for a passionate user experience design intern with a distinguished academic record to join us.
We are currently seeking a talented and driven user experience designer to assist in creating use scenarios and screen-mock-ups for a large project related to rebuilding our primary client web portal. This project is highly visible within the organization and the department has regular interaction with our clients. We will also be designing applications for a variety of mediums (mobile devices, tablets, desktop apps, etc). So as you can see, this is a great opportunity for any student looking to get into the user experience field.
Responsibilities:
•Continuously learn about needs, listening initiatives, and data communication challenges from customers and prospects
•Discover gaps in our product's usability and workflow
•Design the ideal user experience based on functional requirements and our persona’s needs
•Develop detailed use scenarios, early wireframes and high fidelity mockups
•Conduct usability tests with our customers
•Create and iterate through mockups and prototypes based on feedback
•Create and inspire adherence to user interface standards across the product
•Ability to take designs from wireframe to product
•Help the engineering team build high quality, cross-device interfaces
•Be the artist for our user interface!
www.phharval.com
For more info, click here
Our current research focuses include improving collaboration within the enterprise, enhancing browser-based user experiences, interaction with multiple computing devices, user experiences for mobile devices, and user-centered visual analytics. We seek interns with backgrounds in computer science, cognitive science, sociology, and design. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program.
(1) With a subject-line "USER summer intern 2012 application"
(2) Attaching your CV, and
(3) Including the following information in the body text of the email:
(a) A few keywords describing your current research and research area (e.g., CSCW,
info viz, end-user-programming, experimental psychology).
(b) A few keywords describing your HCI research skills (e.g., strong programmer,
quantitative data analysis, experimental design, visual design).
(c) The name and email address of your Ph.D. advisor.
Applications sent to csjobs_user at almaden.ibm.com will be considered for all USER research projects. If you know which project you are interested in, you are encouraged to send an email with the above information to the contact person for that individual project (listed below) -- your application will still be considered for all USER projects. Please do not send your application directly to multiple project teams.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We are exploring the use of social and collaboration software within and among businesses and their customers, including tools for communities, teams, social networks, and collective intelligence groups.
* Understanding social and workplace collaboration: Conducting studies to understand fundamental issues about how people collaborate in companies and how social and collaboration software can help.
* User, team, and community modeling: Designing and developing empirical and computational models to characterize individual and group behavior and traits from collaboration tool usage data (e.g., emails, teamspaces, microblogs). We are leveraging these models to improve the user experience and value of these tools.
* Engaging social networks to collect hidden information, verify questionable information, or take action. This includes building smart dashboards and automated algorithms to facilitate engagement, and conducting user studies to explore the applications that may be enabled through engagement.
Contact: Tara Matthews (tlmatthe at us.ibm.com)
We are looking for summer internship applicants interested in conversational interaction with intelligent assistants. Our CoScripter system (coscripter.researchlabs.ibm.com) enables end users to automate web-based activities, such as checking in for a flight, paying a monthly credit card bill, or finding a local store's business hours. We are extending this system to enable conversations with a mobile user to handle variations in a scripted activity, such as number of checked bags, unexpected credit card charges, or changes in a business' web page. Applicants should have an interest in web-based declarative task modeling and dialog management, or contextual language understanding and generation, with experience in web development.
Contact: Tessa Lau (tessalau at us.ibm.com)
The current set of user experiences and user interfaces for mobile devices just scratch the surface. We're interested in exploring new techniques to allow users to interact with smart phones and tablets (particularly new techniques for rich interactions with visualized information) and new use cases and user experiences for mobile devices (particularly how mobile user experiences can effectively integrate with desktop user experiences, either serially or in parallel). We are looking for internship candidates who are interested in pushing the boundaries of interaction for mobile devices to create compelling next-generation experiences. Experience with mobile development, mobile evaluation, or interactive visualization is preferred.
Contact: Jeff Pierce (jspierce at us.ibm.com)
This line of work involves researching and developing visual analytic paradigms, tools, and methodologies to support task and goal-driven decision making. We are addressing several research issues:
* Design and develop interactive visual metaphors and tools to transform text collections into a visual representation that helps reveal thematic patterns and locate interesting information.
* Devise interactive analytics algorithms and approaches to support guided interactive discovery, visualization, and collaboration on data leveraging data semantics, meta-data, and analytic tasks.
* Model, represent, and translate a person's high-level analytic intent to the underlying, operational, analytic steps.
Overall, we aim to support users in their decision making in domains such as retail and healthcare. We aim to do so by a) designing novel visual metaphors and interaction techniques to convey complex text analytic results and make them consumable by average users; b) seamlessly integrating interactive visualization with analytics techniques to drive and guide visual analysis, tailoring the analysis process to a person’s tasks; and c) leveraging data semantics in the representation of and interaction with data, guiding and summarizing visualizations by automatically detecting and explaining interesting observations in plain language.
Contact: Eser Kandogan (eser at us.ibm.com)
Goal: To work with the Intranet Redesign team to make the web materials more inviting and usable. Technical skills useful but not necessary.
Goal: To support social media use among the National Park Service personnel and to highlight the National Park Service in social media among the general public. No programming experience is necessary.
If you have the right blend of talents and interests, you'll participate in developing various UX deliverables, including concept models, content inventories, site maps, wireframes, and user flow diagrams. You'll join client meetings to experience client presentations and design consultations.
Contact: emily.bloom@gmail.com
(1) Develop learning skills animations (scripted by LAS)
(2) Interactive quizzes (various learning skills topics) that capture and analyze student responses
(3) Website improvements (within current Counseling Center existing parameters)
(4) Develop online survey/checklist to be sent to students prior to LAS visit